Finding meaning in 35mm

My name is Bryant Griffin. I grew up in West Haven, Connecticut, which is a small town in a small state, located between Boston and New York. I grew up engrained in the New England hardcore music scene. Bands like Gorilla Biscuits, Death Threat, and Comeback Kid formed my music taste. As time went on, I moved more towards the quieter bands, things that made me feel more emotions other than anger and angst. Today I find myself listening to Whirr, Nothing and Cigarettes After Sex. Whirr’s “Feels Like You” is probably my most meaningful album that I can’t seem to stop listening to.

My whole life, I’ve looked to various forms of art as some form of self-expression, and I always felt like I was a jack of all forms but a master of none. In high school, I was very into Audiovisual and made little movies for projects and worked in the editing room of my high school for the morning announcements. I always thought I would go into filmography, but it didn’t pan out that way. I bought my first DSLR at probably 17 from a friend, a Nikon D50. I messed around with it for some time, shooting my friends’ bands and cars and some small stuff here and there, but I found that all the digital side was not for me, and I gave it up.